Welcome to the EA DC Newsletter! Below are some of the events and resources that may be of interest to you this month. If you have something you'd like to include in next month's newsletter please email us! If this was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here.

Events and announcements:

Feb. 06: Global Health & Development Cause Area Meetup
Feb. 12: EA DC Speed Friending
Feb. 19: Learn How to Play Spikeball
Feb. 20: Biosecurity Cause Area Meetup (info below)
Feb. 26: The Life You Can Save Book Discussion
Feb. 28: AI Cause Area Meetup (info below)
Save the date(s) for EA conferences in Spring 2022, including one in our region (Boston) in the first or second weekend in April (exact date TBD).

Community Spotlight:

Caleb Watney and Alec Stapp recently launched the Institute for Progress. IFP is a new EA/Progress Studies aligned think tank dedicated to accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity's future. Initial areas of focus include Metascience, Immigration, Biosecurity, and Emerging Tech. Their team includes Nikki Teran, Senior Biosecurity Fellow, and Jeremy Neufeld, Senior Immigration Fellow.

Do you know someone in our community that should be in the spotlight? Maybe you have just published a book, gotten a new job, or started a new charity or project? If you have an idea for a future spotlight please email us to let us know!

Cause area meetups:

Want to meet and work with EAs organized around your favorite cause area? Our cause area meetup groups are going strong - here are the meetups happening this month:

Feb. 06: Global Health & Development Cause Area Meetup
Feb. 20: Biosecurity cause area meetup
Feb. 28: AI Cause area meetup

If you’d like to join the mailing lists for any of our groups please fill out this form and we’ll add you! Would you like to facilitate a cause area group? Email us if you're interested or would like to learn more!

Find roommates and co-work mates:

Looking to live with other DC-area EAs? Check out this spreadsheet for available rooms in the area or add your name if you are looking for a place or looking to rent.

Want to co-work with other DC EAs? Sign up on this EA DC co-working interest form. Interested in the broader community? Check out the EA Focusmate group to co-work with EAs from around the world!

Join a reading / listening group:

Our first 80k podcast discussion group - discussing Andrew Yang - was a success! let us know if there's an episode that you would like to propose we discuss next, or if there is a discussion you want to host!

EA DC Book Club: We are meeting to discuss the Life You Can Save there’s a free ebook and audiobook linked on the Eventbrite page. Let us know if you’d like a physical copy of the book as well by emailing info@effectivealtruismdc.org.

EA DC Article Reading Group: Meets monthly, covering a different topic area of interest each month. This group is currently at capacity and will reopen to newcomers shortly

New DC-based Jobs:

AI:
- DARPA: Program Engineering Lead
- Georgetown CSET: Analytic Lead for CSET’s Emerging Technology Observatory (closes 2/21/22)
- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center: Technical Expert, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Technologies
- TechCongress: Congressional Innovation Scholar
- Legal Priorities Project: Senior research fellow
Animal Welfare
- American Humane: Communications Specialist
Bio-risk
- The Rockefeller Foundation: Pandemic Prevention Institute Operations Manager
- The Rockefeller Foundation: Summer Associate, Global Vaccine Initiative
- ANSER: Chemical and Biological Defense Technical Advisor for Strategy/Plans
- Council on Strategic Risks: Nolan Ctr. on Strategic Weapons associate focused on bio-risk
- Legal Priorities Project: Senior research fellow
Climate / environment
- Bipartisan Policy Center: Policy Analyst, Energy Program
- CSIS: Fellow - Energy Security and Climate Change Program
Global Poverty
- TapTapSend: Launcher: US-Kenya Remittance
- Innovations for Poverty Action: Grants Officer
Security/Defense
- FP21 (new EA-adjacent foreign policy think tank): Research director, comms director
- RAND: Research Assistant, Chinese Language Specialist
- ANSER: Countering WMD: Treaties Subject Matter Expert
Policy:
- Federation of American Scientists: Science Policy Associate
- Congressional Budget Office: Intern
- CSIS: Temporary Graduate Research Assistant - Global Health Policy Center
- Lewis Burke (gov't relations): legislative research assistant
- President of the United States: Special Assistant to the President (Speech Writer, Writer and Researcher)
- Legal Priorities Project: Senior research fellow, law and institutional design research fellow, operations role, head of outreach and community building

Looking for an internship? The EA Internship Board is now live. More info here.

Articles and recommendations:

Dylan Mathews (Vox) on global lead exposure
Slate on the National Security case for lab-grown and plant-based meat
Derek Thompson (Atlantic) on how investors are trying to speed up scientific progress
Holden Karnofsky (Cold Takes) on empowerment and stakeholder management
Comprehensive comparison of EA climate donation recommendations from Giving Green and Founder's pledge
Longtermist AI governance landscape: A basic overview
Deepmind's podcast starts its second season
Rhaina Cohen (NPR, Atlantic) on celebrating rejection
Andrew Snyder-Beattie on concrete biosecurity projects
Winners of the EA forum creative writing contest

Charity news and updates:

DC-based Institute for Progress launched, (see spotlight above)
80,000 hours is looking to talk to more people than ever -- maybe you or a friend?
Members of EA for Jews, EA for Christians, and other faith based EA groups have published a collection of essays on EA and religion
CEA has launched EA librarian to answer your EA questions and the EA Groups Resource Centre for anyone interested in starting an EA group
Nonlinear is looking to fund an EA headhunting agency
Charity Entrepreneurship is launching a pilot program for grantmaking foundations
Training for Good are offering free 1-1 coaching for EAs (deadline is Feb. 11)
The Institute for Replication launched, they aim to improve replicability of scientific research
Effective Self Help (ESH) has luanched, aiming to find the most effective ways to improve health and productivity
More updates at this evergreen link!

Get in touch with us!

The Effective Altruism Movement is growing quickly and we're glad you have decided to get more involved. If you have any further questions on effective altruism or how you can get involved in the area, our DC EA team is here for you! Feel free to reach out to us directly at info@effectivealtruismdc.org and/or sign up for a 1-1 chat here!